(Linked Data Interfaces and Querying track) "SUMMA: A Common API for Linked Data Entity Summaries"- Andreas Thalhammer and Steffen Stadtmüller

KIT – University of the State of Baden-Wuerttemberg and
National Research Center of the Helmholtz Association
Institute of Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods
www.kit.edu
SUMMA: A Common API for Linked Data Entity Summaries
Andreas Thalhammer and Steffen Stadtmüller
15th International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE 2015) 25.06.2015
Rotterdam

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Outline
1. Motivation
2. SUMMA API definition
3. Implementation
4. Evaluation
5. Related work
6. Conclusions
7. Future work
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Motivation
RDF graphs enable to represent all available information about entities:
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Pulp
Fiction
John
Travolta
Uma
Thurman
Quentin
Tarantino
1994
178
Bruce
Willis
runtime
(minutes)
year
starring
starring
starring
director
Kill Bill
Vol. 1
2003
112
runtime
(minutes)
year
starring
director

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Motivation
RDF graphs enable to represent all available information about entities:
Problems:
Untidy visualization of specific entities with a graph
 Feature-based representation
Many entities are involved in more than 1000 relations
 Entity summarization
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Pulp
Fiction
John
Travolta
Uma
Thurman
Quentin
Tarantino
1994
178
Bruce
Willis
runtime
(minutes)
year
starring
starring
starring
director
Pulp Fiction
Year: 1994
Runtime (minutes): 178
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Starring: Bruce Willis
John Travolta
Uma Thurman
Samuel L. Jackson
Harvey Keitel
Tim Roth
Lawrence Bender
Amanda Plummer
Eric Stoltz
Peter Greene
Phil LaMarr
Julia Sweeney
Bur Steers

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Motivation
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(Source: http://bing.com)
(Source: http://bbc.co.uk)

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Motivation
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(Source: http://bing.com)
(Source: http://bbc.co.uk)
http://rdf.freebase.com/ns/location.country.capital http://rdf.freebase.com/ns/m.0156q
http://rdf.freebase.com/ns/0345h

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Motivation
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Problem: Tight coupling
low interoperability
low compatibility
Solution: Decoupling
Servers Clients ClientServers
Separate Servers and Clients Summarization mashups become possible
SUMMA SUMMA SUMMA

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Motivation
Quantitative evaluation:
Qualitative evaluation:
A/B-Testing:
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Comparator

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SUMMA API definition
Producing a summary of an entity
What is needed:
URI (of the entity e) – the entity needs to be identified
k (number) – an upper limit of facts related to e
What could be needed:
Multi-language support
Statement groups (e.g., biographical data)
Restriction to specific properties
Multi-hop search space
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PF
JT
VV
actor
role
_:
starring
Angela Merkel
Date of birth: July 17, 1954
Place of birth: Hamburg (1,73 mio, 2013)

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The SUMMA API involves:
SUMMA Vocabulary
RESTful interaction
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SUMMA Vocabulary:
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summa:Summary
xsd:positiveInteger
summa:topK
summa:entity
rdfs:Resource
xsd:String
summa:language
summa:fixedProperty
rdf:Property
summa:statement
rdf:Statement
xsd:positiveInteger
summa:maxHops
summa:SummaryGroup
summa:group
summa:path

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Vocabulary:
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@prefix : <http://purl.org/voc/summa/>.
[ a :Summary ;
:entity dbpedia:Barack_Obama ;
:topK "2"^^xsd:positiveInteger .
:language "en" ;
:maxHops “1"^^xsd:positiveInteger ;
:fixedPredicate dbpedia-owl:birthPlace
]

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Interaction:
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Client Server
POST [ a :Summary;
:entity dbpedia:Barack_Obama; :topK 10 ] .
201 CREATED
Location: http://example.com/
summary?entity=dbpedia:Barack_Obama&topK=10
@ prefix summa: <http://purl.org/voc/summa/> .
...
GET http://example.com/
summary?entity=dbpedia:Barack_Obama&topK=10
200 OK
@ prefix summa: <http://purl.org/voc/summa/> .
...

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SUMMA Vocabulary:
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<http://km.aifb.kit.edu/summaServer/sum?entity=http://dbpedia.org/resour
ce/Barack_Obama&topK=2&maxHops=1&language=enhttp://dbpedia.
org/ontology/birthPlace> a <http://purl.org/voc/summa/Summary> ;
....
summa:statement [ rdf:type rdf :Statement ;
rdf:subject dbpedia:Barack_Obama ;
rdf:predicate dbpedia-owl:birthPlace ;
rdf:object dbpedia:Honululu ;
vrank:hasRank [ vrank:rankValue " 5512.0" ^^ xsd:double ]
]
...
dbpedia:Honolulu rdfs:label "Honolulu"@en .
...

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Implementation
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<script>
summa("http://dbpedia.org/resource/Marie_Curie", 10, "en", null, "summary1",
" http://km.aifb.kit.edu/summa/summarum") ;
summa("http://dbpedia.org/resource/Marie_Curie", 10, "en", null, "summary2“,
"http://km.aifb.kit.edu/summaServer/sum") ;
...
https://github.com/athalhammer/summaServer
https://github.com/athalhammer/summaClient
http://people.aifb.kit.edu/ath/summaClient

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Evaluation
Search Engines:
Google Knowledge Graph
Microsoft Bing Satori/Snapshots
Yahoo Knowledge
News Portals (Alexa Top 25 News sites):
Forbes
BBC News
Could the user interfaces be generated with data from the
SUMMA API without changing their layout?
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Evaluation
Features:
Property Restriction
Statement Groups
Multi-hop Search Space
Languages
Five entities:
Spain (country)
Dirk Nowitzki (person/athlete)
Ramones (band)
SAP (company/organization)
Inglourious Basterds (movie)
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(Source: http://google.com)

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Evaluation
Results:
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Related work
RDF data access via middle layers:
Pubby [1]
The Linked Data API [2]
RDF content selection and ranking:
Fresnel - Display Vocabulary for RDF [3]
vRank Vocabulary [4]
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Conclusions
Decouple user interface from actual entity summarization
system by defining a common API.
Light-weight and extensible vocabulary and interaction
mechanism.
Reference implementations and their source code are
publicly available.
Evaluation demonstrates applicability in real-world
scenarios.
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Future work
Build adapters to Google Knowledge Graph, Microsoft Bing
Satori/Snapshots, Yahoo Knowledge.
Implement a platform where SUMMA services can be
registered and (re-)used.
Extend the vocabulary and interaction mechanism towards
user context and personalization factors.
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Questions?
andreas.thalhammer@kit.edu
@thalhamm

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Bibliography
[1] http://wifo5-03.informatik.uni-mannheim.de/pubby/
[2] https://code.google.com/p/linked-data-api/
[3] Christian Bizer, Emmanuel Pietriga, David Karger, and Ryan Lee.
Fresnel: A Browser-Independent Presentation Vocabulary for RDF. In
Proc. of 5th International Semantic Web Conference, Athens, GA, USA,
November 5-9, 2006, LNCS 4273, 2006.
[4] Antonio Roa-Valverde, Andreas Thalhammer, Ioan Toma, and
Miguel-Angel Sicilia. Towards a formal model for sharing and reusing
ranking computations. In Proc. of the 6th Intl. Workshop on Ranking in
Databases In conjunction with VLDB 2012, 2012.
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